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Meanings of cliques in English

Russian
клика
Catalan
clique

Group of people who interact with each other and share similar interests.

        клика
        Usage of cliques in English
        1
        She found herself excluded from Washington society by various cliques of women.
        A. lincoln: a biography
        2
        Surrounded by these cliques, the emperors became in most cases powerless figureheads.
        A History of China
        3
        The clan spirit among the different boyish cliques at school revived again.
        A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
        4
        The struggles and intrigues of cliques against each other continued as before.
        A History of China
        5
        She thought about Stanford-theacademic cliques, the gorgeous football players, the socialites.
        Joe Burke's Last Stand
        6
        Factions and powerful cliques attempted very frequently revolutionary movements on those occasions.
        Dio's Rome, Volume 6 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
        7
        There are no hierarchies, there are no cliques, it is everyone together.
        The Guardian
        8
        In Heaven there won't be cliques, exclusiveness, arrogance, posturing, belit­tling, or jealousy.
        Heaven
        9
        The original dealt a fatal blow to social cliques at East High.
        Reuters
        10
        Insane, neurotic cliques, you don't dare open your mouth... He got up.
        The Young Lions
        11
        In the capital, eunuchs ruled in the interests of various cliques.
        A History of China
        12
        This applies to grooming cliques among apes and Internet social networks among humans.
        Wired
        13
        The chief influence of the cliques lay, however, in the selection of officials.
        A History of China
        14
        But it lacked harmony in its ranks and suffered from cliques.
        Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895
        15
        We have players from all different states who do everything together, no cliques.
        The Guardian
        16
        The Observer also reported claims of gay cliques of Scottish priests.
        The Guardian
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        Russian
        клика
        Catalan
        clique
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        United Kingdom
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        United States of America
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